Fully Printed Wearable Vital Sensor for Human Pulse Rate Monitoring using Ferroelectric Polymer.

ABSTRACT: The ability to monitor subtle changes in vital and arterial signals using flexible devices attached to the human skin can be valuable for the detection of various health conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Conventional Si device technologies are being utilised in traditional clinical systems; however, its fabrication is not easy owing to the difficulties in adapting to conventional processes. Here, we present the development of a fully printed, wearable, ferroelectric-polymer vital sensor for monitoring the human pulse wave/rate on the skin. This vital sensor is compact, thin, sufficiently flexible, and conforms to the skin while providing high pressure sensitivity, fast response time, superior operational stability, and excellent mechanical fatigue properties. Moreover, the vital s

SUBMITTER: Sekine T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849614 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature